Well The Cubs Are No Longer Company

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4 hours ago, JetPotato said:

All the baseball games are at 8PM and their ratings are up. 

But I guess if you're a CNN viewer, facts aren't that important to you.

Yeah, check your definition of "up".

MLB had declining ratings for years, the Cubs are the hot story, so they are up to last year.  NFL had record-setting ratings for years, the Cubs and the elections are taking a bite, so they are down to last year.

Cubs clinch Game 5 of the Divisional Series and they drew 6 million viewers but "up" 7%.

Cardinals/49ers had 12 million viewers but "down" 20%.

The takeaway?  A boring Thursday Night Football game had 2X the viewers of an epic divisional playoff series featuring the lovable Cubs.

http://www.sportsvideo.org/2016/10/14/ratings-roundup-full-mlb-division-series-rundown-nfl-slump-continues/

Cowboys/Packers on a Sunday afternoon drew 28 million.

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Cubs’ World Series win inspires Jets to end their 47-year drought

By Zach Braziller

November 3, 2016 | 9:09pm

 

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Running back Matt Forte avoids a tackle by Joe Haden in the Jets' Week 8 victory over the Browns.Photo: Getty Images

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Two major sports title droughts have ended in the past six months. In June, the Cavaliers won their first NBA title in their 46 years as an organization. On Wednesday, the Cubs claimed their first World Series in a whopping 108 years.

Plenty remain locally, and nobody has waited longer for a title than long-suffering Jets fans. Watching the Cubs finally reach the mountaintop only added inspiration for the green and white.

“It’s time for Gang Green to come back and get it done, and that’s what we’re trying to do here,” linebacker Mike Catapano said.

After a 1-5 start, the Jets have won two games in a row and can inch closer to the .500 mark with a win Sunday in Miami. The Jets won their lone Super Bowl in 1969, and they have the longest drought of any of the area’s professional teams — 47 years and counting. The Knicks are going on 43 years, last winning it all in 1973, and the Mets are at 30 years, after claiming the 1986 World Series.

Though the Jets have not been back to the Super Bowl since the days of Joe Namath, they have come close, reaching the AFC Championship game four times — most recently in 2009 and 2010.

“I think about that stuff all the time,” running back Matt Forte said. “That’s part of your motivation and drive every day.”

Cornerback Darrelle Revis joked Jets fans would “party for the rest of their lives” if the green and white ever won a Super Bowl.

“It would be mayhem,” Catapano said.

Rookie linebacker Jordan Jenkins said he believes it would rival the Chicago celebration.

“Oh man, if we won it, the city would shut down,” Jenkins said. “You wouldn’t be able to get out of New York. The city would be crazy for all of [February].”

Jets players described their fans as passionate, intense and loyal, demanding the best. Rookie linebacker Victor Ochi grew up on Long Island a Giants fan, and though every year would end in disappointment for Gang Green, his Jets fan friends never would give up.

“They would talk the same junk every year,” he said. “They ride for this team. That’s really what I love about them. … That adds motivation.”

Catapano grew up on Long Island like Ochi, but he was a Jets fan, living through the heartache of one Super Bowl-less season after another. Now that he is on the team, he has experienced that pain firsthand. His friends, many of them Jets fans, don’t let him forget it.

“They’re always telling me how the team can be coached better, how this can be done, how that can be done, ‘Mike, you’re not doing this enough,’ ” Catapano said with a smile. “It’s part of being a New Yorker. Everybody’s got something to say. They bring up everything. They don’t sugarcoat anything.”

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Cubs fans celebrate outside Wrigley Field on Wednesday after their team won Game 7 of the World Series to end a 108-year championship drought.Photo: AP

Forte, who spent the first eight years of his career in Chicago with the Bears, was rooting for the Cubs finally to get over the hump. Everyone in Chicago always talked about the drought ending one day, but nobody was sure it ever would.

“What a great story for those guys, being down 3-1 [in the series] and coming back to win the World Series,” Forte said. “A drought that long to be over with, especially for Cubs fans, is some sort of great relief. They’re that much more proud to be a Cubs fan now.”

Jenkins understands title droughts better than most. He hasn’t won a football championship since he was in the fourth grade. He couldn’t help but imagine what it was like to be part of a professional team to win it all, after watching the Cubs celebrate in Cleveland and seeing the scene in Chicago.

“It just looked like it’s such a great feeling, to know you’re the best,” he said. “All the hard work and conditioning you put in during the season and the offseason, you got rewarded. You did the impossible.

“You want to be the team that did it, that changed the story, the team that started the wave of championship-worthy teams. You want to be that team.”

Until it happens, there’s no way to know what it would be like for the Jets and their fans if they did win a Super Bowl.

“I guess,” Ochi said, “we’ll have to find out.”